background: diabetes mellitus is a strong risk factor for cardiovascular disease, including acute myocardial infarction (ami). management of risk factors and the other prevention services in recent years lead to a significant decrease in ami incidence. however, to examine the success of those strategies to control diabetes, this study aimed to identify the trends in prevalence of diabetes melli...

background and objective: alleviation of serum glucose level and lipid profile in diabetic patients using herbal medications is of great importance. in the present study, the effect of oral consumption of olive leaves on serum glucose level and lipid profile was investigated. materials and methods: male wistar rats were divided into four groups including control, control under treatment, diabet...

immunoglobulins g, a, and m have been reponed to be present in statistically significant higher levels in diabetic patients compared to healthy comrols. ii may be conceived that the levels of immunoglobulins might be significantly higher in diabetics with long-lasting (months of) poor control than in peers with an equally long term period of good control. to assess this possibility, we measured...

background: there is a relationship between dental caries and high blood sugar. this study was designed to investigate the prevalence of dental caries among diabetic children in isfahan, iran. methods: diabetic children from pediatric ward of hospitals were compared to a control healthy group of children. results: the mean dmft was significantly higher in diabetic children compared to the contr...

glycosaminoglycan (gag) has a pivot role in renal function and homeostasis. analysis of gag amount generally serves to determine gag alteration due to diabetes mellitus. critical electrolyte concentration (cec) staining can be an efficacy method to study gag amount changes. based on an experimental study, 20 male rats were randomly divided equally into two experimental and control groups. diabe...

background: physical activity has shown to prevent type diabetes 2. however, the type, intensity and amount of effective physi­cal activity as well as individuals' needs according to level of their risk for type 2 diabetes have not been clarified comprehen­sively. this study investigated a relation between moderate aerobic physical activity ≥150 minuets/week with de­creased risk of type 2 diabe...

background: we aimed to assess the prevalence of type-2 diabetes in rural pondicherry and to study the determinants of diabetes mellitus (dm) in the rural population of pondicherry, south induia. methods: it was a cross-sectional community-based study conducted from november 2010 to january 2012 in two of the field practice villages affiliated to a medical college in pondicherry. sample size wa...

BACKGROUND Incidence of type 1 diabetes mellitus is increasing worldwide. Monitoring glycaemia is essential for control of diabetes mellitus. Conventional blood-based measurement of glucose requires venepuncture or needle prick, which is not free from pain and risk of infection. The non-invasiveness, ease and low-cost in collection made saliva an attractive alternative sample. The objective of ...

Objective: Although it is type 1 diabetes mellitus of autoimmune origin that is most prevalent in childhood and adolescence, other forms of diabetes can also affect this population, resulting in different prognosis and treatment. Sources: Informationwasobtainedbymeansof abibliographic review, carriedout by running searches for scientific articles in the MEDLINE and LILACS databases, in addition...